Reflection on the Oral Presentation 2

Reflecting after each presentation is the best way to figure out my good points as well as bad points that need some improvements. Below are the criteria that I want to achieve:

1. Be clear with the content

2. Speaking volume and pronunciation

3. Confidence

4. Maintain the eye contact

5. Use appropriate gesture

6. The cohesiveness within the team

7. Be able to answer the question

By preparing the slides and the scripts carefully for the presentation, the content was clear enough for everyone to understand. The introduction was provided to let people know what I was talking about. Furthermore, the transitions from one part to another were also included so that everyone can follow easily.

After 3 times rehearsing before the presentation, I looked more confident comparing to the last time. However, the nervousness was still a big issue. It resulted in having no smile and shaking many times throughout the presentation. More effort should be made to control the nervousness so that my posture can be better in the future presentation.

The speaking volume was well-adjusted and the pronunciation on the whole was clear except for sometimes stuttering and hesitating due to the nervousness. These improvements made my verbal delivery clear so that everyone could understand. Although I tried to adjust the tone to emphasize some parts, I did not do it very well. More practice will be needed to improve it in the future.

For the non-verbal cues, I also made some improvements comparing to the last oral presentation. The eye contact was maintained and there was no distracting gesture throughout the presentation.

Another good point in the presentation is that the cohesiveness within the team was very good. We dress formally for the presentation. Furthermore, the transition between two speakers was smooth.

However, I did not perform well in the Q&A session by being inactive in answering the question. Although we could politely answer all the questions, I should be more active by giving answers or supporting ideas for other teammates.

Reviewing the posts

First of all, I would like to thank you for spending time reading and commenting my blog. Most of your comments are very useful to me. In the first two posts, the topics were about the teamwork and intercultural communication. They were quite weird to me at that time because I had never been in such a multi-cultural environment before and I just had a few experiences working in team when I was in high school. Before taking this course, I still kept in mind that working individually is more effective and efficient than working in team. Therefore, my first post was just base on my knowledge from the book and from searching Google. By reading your comments as well as your posts of the same topic, I realized the importance of teamwork in solving problems.

On the second post, you were more critical reading my post so that you can point out some errors in it. I have to make a special thank to Juncheng who reminded me about the factual error. I would be more careful about giving example in the future post. Many people reminded me about the grammar errors, I have to make a special effort to avoid this error.

My third post was about resolving conflicts. In my opinion, sharing my own story and reading people’s comments would be a good way to find out how to resolve such a situation in the future. Most of the comments were very useful. You advised me to remain calm during the presentation and then we should sit down and resolve the conflict between me and my friend. That would be the best choice to maintain a good relationship. I think I will do this if there are any conflicts in my team in the future.

The last post is the reflection on the first project meeting. In this post, I was fail to reflect my own performance and also forgot to post the video for every to have something to evaluate and give more constructive comments. According to the advices, I should overcome the shyness and feel free to ask any question for clarification whenever needed and practice speaking English to be clear when I describe my ideas. Moreover, in the future reflections, I have to describe specifically my performance as well as my flaws so that I can improve on it.

Once again, I would like to say thank you for helping me improve myself by giving constructive comments on my blog. I will try my best to make some improvements on it.

Reflection on the CG1102 second meeting

My teammates, Juncheng and Nitika, said that I performed well on the second meeting and there were just a few things to criticize me so that we should showed the appreciation on the reflection. However, I thought that they were so nice to me and I had to critically reflect myself again so that I could figure out some points to improve for the next meeting. I would like to use the criteria that my team used to evaluate my performance:

· Well prepared for the meeting

· Courteous

· Committed

· Critical

· Open to suggestions

It is true that I made some improvements comparing to the last meeting. I participated actively in the discussion although my speech was still unclear and not fluent enough which caused difficulty for other members to understand my ideas. This time I overcame the shyness and was willing to voiced out my ideas and asked for clarification whenever needed.

However, when other teammates were speaking, I did not maintain the eye contacts although the sitting position was very convenient to do that. I kept looking at the paper without any non verbal cues. Moreover, the facial expression was not so good. I seemed like being in an argument with an unhappy face most of the meeting time. Nevertheless, these flaws did not repeat when I was speaking – the eye contact was maintained and I also smiled sometimes when I saw the agreement from other members.

On the whole, I did better than the last time although there were some points that I need to take note of. Maintaining eye contact, making facial expression and practicing speaking clearly were the main points that he need to improve for the future discussion.